National Assembly of Pakistan
The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...
in 1977 and from 1988 to 1990.
Early life and education
Nisar Akbar Khan was born to father Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan and mother Begum Ali Akbar Khan, as the eldest of his siblings. His family is of
Rajput
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Punjab
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, having settled in the city after emigrating from East Punjab's
Hoshiarpur district
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Frontier Force Regiment
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. He retired from the
Pakistan Army
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as a captain.
Political career
Khan entered politics in the 1970 general election, contesting unsuccessfully for a seat in the
National Assembly
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constituency
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of NA-70 (Lyallpur-III). He received 60,776 votes and defeated Muhammad Siddique Randhawa, a PNA candidate, by a margin of 15,000 votes. His tenure lasted from March to July, as a result of the military coup of 1977 which led to the dissolution of the assembly.
He did not stand in the non-party election of 1985, a poll boycotted by the PPP during martial law, in which the constituency was won by Muhammad Hanif Ansari. Following a return to democracy in the 1988 general election, Khan contested from the newly delimited constituency of NA-63 (Faisalabad-VII) and was re-elected. He received 54,251 votes and defeated
Akram Ansari
Akram Ansari (; born 4 April 1954) is a Pakistani politician.
Political career
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate for Non Party Election for Constituency NA-63 (Faisalabad-VII) in 1985 Pakistani by election ...
, an IJI candidate, by a margin of over 8,000 votes. He served his second term in parliament from November 1988 until the completion of his tenure in August 1990.
In the 1990 general election, he was allotted a different constituency by the PPP and went unelected, a move that allowed IJI's Akram Ansari to reclaim NA-63. In the 1993 general election, he returned to his former constituency. However, he received 48,796 votes and lost to Ansari, who was contesting on behalf of the PML-N this time, by around 14,000 votes. In the 1997 general election, the PPP decided to award its ticket for NA-63 to a former Faisalabad councillor, Riaz Ahmad Ansari, who was also defeated by Akram Ansari. In the 2002 general election, Khan contested from NA-82 (Faisalabad-VIII) on behalf of the parliamentarians wing of the PPP. He received 36,288 votes and lost by a narrow margin of fewer than 800 votes to
Muhammad Fazal Karim
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, a PML-N candidate.
In October 2007, Khan parted ways with the PPP and became a member of the
Pakistan Muslim League (N)
The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...
. In the 2008 general election, he campaigned from NA-81 (Faisalabad-VII). He received 23,305 votes and placed third in the poll behind runner-up Nisar Ahmad Jutt of the PML-Q, losing to PPP's winning candidate
Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal
Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal (30 October 1966 – 12 December 2022) was a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
Political career
Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Con ...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...
(PTI) and competed from NA-82 (Faisalabad-VIII). He received 36,373 votes, losing to PML-N's Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan by a margin of about 90,000 votes.
Personal life
Khan married in 1962. His brother-in-law, Chaudhry Umar Daraz Khan, was elected as a member of the Punjab provincial assembly in 1977 and 1988.